Hi Jorge! Here, where I live we never not heard about 'Paella"! I think it's something delicious.Jorge, you know that 8 March-- is woman's day!???Really, I want to make something interesting and delicious for my sister and my mom, but I didn't know what! Can please to give one good advice from you!!??? Will be very glad! ;)

Jorge, I was, ever very interested- "In the first or second season of Lost, you make a jump in a water, I like so much this moment, =) but it's looks like you jumping in water -where is not Big depth--it's true!??? There, not was Big depth??? Or just it so seemed to me!??? ;)

Looks fab (even though i'm vegan- with a fish twist) and co-incidentally i was at a twilight market last week where the fOOd was fabulous and i even took photo's of... yes you guessed it, the Paella (Funny that!... oooh a bit like a Lost plot!) X:-o!

Yeah I knew Spanish people would say it's not paella. But that's fine. The Spaniards on the show said the same thing about ANY paella not made in Valencia.

Your right it's pureed tomatoes not sauce. We used canned. We also used different seafood. Oh and the shrimp were not rubbery. We cooked them and removed them and then added them again later as the recipe said.

My recipe came from the book, "Spain: A Culinary Road Trip." It came out of a television show that Mario Batali made with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Cook some rice mixed with saffron and set aside. In a big pot throw little smokies cut up, peppers, onions, garlic, chopped up chicken breast with a little olive oil. Once that is cooked through - add a bag of cleaned shrimp and some butter. Then mix in with the rice.

Hi colega, listen, whenever you wanna make una buena paella por favor dame un toque y te enseño, no es que tenga mal aspeto, es que seems to be a different thing than paella, and it´s not because it had´nt been made in Valencia, ´cause I´m from south Spain,, Málaga, and paella doesn´t have to be from Valencia para que sea buena. Ademas me ofrezco para enseñarte a hacer Porra Antequerana, which is a cold soup made with vegetables, jamon serrano, eggs and tuna. I´m sure you´ll love it.

Woo-hoo! I adore when I see someone praising Spain´s national dish :) I could not live without it when I was living away from my country so I often cooked it for my international friends who had not even heard of it.

Yours looks delicious!! and believe me, it is seriously tricky to get it the first times so well done, congrats.

Greetings from Spain! :)

P.S: I just stumbled upon your blog, did not know you had one. I admire your down-to-earth attitude, never lose it Jorge!

Jorge in Spain there are a lot of different tipes of Paellas, there even is one made with the ink of the Calamari called Paella negra. So I thik yours is just as real as any of them. You should be very proud of it

I am SO going to make this. My husband and kids will go ape over it (I'm not a big seafood person myself). Did you serve anything as a side dish or does this stand on its own? It looks like it would go well with corn bread, but then again, I'm from the south and think almost anything goes well with cornbread. :oP